Last day of 10:30, president of Lenovo Greater China, Chen Shaopeng confirmed that the company had just signed with Microsoft, the next year will cost 1.3 billion U.S. dollars, including Vista, including Microsoft's purchase of legitimate software, the future users in the retail market, Lenovo purchased All computers will be installed at the factory on the Vista operating system.
The two sides was held today in the United States Cooperation Forum on China-US high-tech contracting. Today at 10 am, Chen Shaopeng, held in a special overseas telephone communication was disclosed, the contract is completed around 5 pm EDT, the future of a 1.3 billion U.S. dollars in the procurement of software products, including Vista and XP operating system also includes office productivity software. Chen Shaopeng said more than 70% of Lenovo computers are sold to the retail market, which will be fully installed on the Vista computer operating system, while 20% of computers sold to large customers, the operating system installed on these computers will be big clients themselves, Large customers generally buy their own operating system.
It is reported that after installing Vista operating system, computer prices will increase "a little", after the news, each computer increased by about "a can of Coke," the price.
Vista operating system at the previous conference, Lenovo, Founder, Dell and other domestic and foreign computer manufacturers, hardware manufacturers, software developers, content providers and service providers and channel partners such as the industry more than 30 listed out in full at the first a time to become a direct participant in the program are Vista. In all the retail Vista operating system installed on your computer, Lenovo is the first time this behavior in the industry.
Not long ago, Microsoft announced on its Web site, from January 31, 2008 start, with Microsoft signing of the computer manufacturers will sell only pre-loaded Vista PC, that is, Windows XP operating system next year will be in the market The new computers sold in all of "retirement."